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For Williamstown junior golfer Sean Moreland, going to the state tournament is a goal he set out for and completed with his second place finish at the All “A” Tournament Aug. 26 at Eagle Creek Country Club.

“It feels good going to State,” he said. “I wish I could have played better and got first place in the meet.”

Moreland finished second behind Jordan Tingle of Trimble County by just one stroke.

“It was hole number 10,” Moreland said. “I double-bogeyed on a par three and that kept me from medaling.”

The Family and Consumer Science program at Grant County High School is not your mother’s home economics class’ of days gone by.

Anna Day Sullinger, Family and Consumer Science teacher at GCHS, was named the Outstanding New Career and Technical Teacher of Kentucky. Sullinger was given the award at the summer conference of the Kentucky Association for Career and Technical Education (KACTE) on July 19.

What: Lady Demons win last game of the Western Hills Invitational, defeating Boyle County 2-1 (9-21, 21-18, 15-7)

Quote of the game: “We didn’t do as well as we wanted to. Those teams were all Lexington and Frankfort teams. We came in playing the two nights previous of the tournament, and I just think we were just worn out.” – Wes Staff

A 41-year-old Williamstown man pleaded guilty Aug. 5 to conspiring to distribute explosives without a license.

Robert Bancroft, who was indicted in federal court in Covington in May, had two counts of possession of stolen explosive materials, two counts of transport of explosive materials without a license and two counts of distribution of explosive materials dismissed in exchange for his plea agreement with federal prosecutors.

He is scheduled to be back in court at 1 p.m. Nov. 4 for sentencing and was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals after his plea.

If you build it, they will come and Kentucky is expecting a lot of people to come to the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, which begin Sept. 25 and continue through Oct. 10.

State tourism officials have compared the WEG to an equine version of the Olympics and it’s expected to draw 900 horses, 800 riders and people from more than 60 countries to Kentucky. It is also the first time the event has ever been hosted in the United States.

So far, just over 315,000 tickets have been sold to WEG events, out of a projected sales of 600,000.